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Do you mean..how we take the song? I'm not sure what it's REALLY about but I read interpretations to different songs on TMBG.org and this is what some girl took it to be about..and it sounded the most right. I'll copy and paste it for people to see: (This is also the person I was refering to when I wrote in my introduction that someone cried for over an hour after listening to "The End of the Tour")

"Ask me now I understand the words that John has said....

I have never had an experience quite like last night when i realized what "The End Of The Tour" is about. It is the absolute saddest song I have ever heard in my life. I cried for over an hour listening to it.

It is about a horrible car crash and a man's struggle to forgive himself for killing a car full of teenagers. It actually was not his fault because the girls were drunk driving but ever since the incidnt he has brutally blamed himself. He is finally finding the first bit of hope toward recovery from the horrible wreck that he was involved in.

Listen to the words....

There was a beautiful teenage girl who was at a party, under the influence of drugs or alcohol. She became bored of the party so she decided she could drive; she thought that she was able to "see herself". She takes her friends and they drive out on I-91. The man is driving also and it's late; he is distracted by many things. When on the overpass, he is hit. His car is mereley dented but the other car bursts into flames and the girls are killed. He watched the police take the bodies out. He saw how beautiful the children were and was scarred by this completely.

During the song he refers to the family of the beautiful girl and the horror that they must have felt when the police knocked on the door to tell them they had lost their child. He also breaks into the nursery type lyric about watching the police pull the bodies from the car.

He has blamed himself for the wreck from the beginning, but he has been ruining himself with it and finally decides to turn to God who helps him out. He finally finds a peace within himself saying that at the end of his life, if anyone will forgive him, he will meet the girl in heaven and apologize. Until then he must endure his own life, but one day he will be in heaven to ask for forgiveness.

He is beginning to realize that it is not his fault and he must go on and God has "let them go" for a reason. He will always be haunted by the experience and will never be the same. And he's never going to tour again.

There is actually a lot more I could say about the song but I just wanted to share my experience.

It is incredible. Thank you John."

So I voted tragedy.

I think it's a Tragedy. But if it were a comedy, it'd be a Black One

I think it's a mix of all 3, but I voted romance.

My personal interpretation:

A tour-bus and a car fall in love as they're on the highway. Their drivers are acting irresponsably, so the vehicles decide to take the chance. BANG!!! The two become inextricably wrecked together and the car is burned-out shell. This really was the end of the tour for everyone concerned, except the passengers who escaped by the emergency exit in the bus (however, they were put off touring forever). The girl was driving the car, the 'crown and scepter' were the steering wheel and gearstick. The car ws old and had a door that didn't match.

There's plenty of quotes for this but I didn't want to do an enormously long comment.

i don't know...

Now I've written my interp, I feel I should have made that comedy. One thing

Gianthead has it pretty much, and I say tragedy.